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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #79-large.jpg) |
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| Subject/Title: | Overton, Jesse Maxwell 1863-1922 |
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| Artist: | Adolf Felix Muller-Ury | |
| Date Created: | unknown | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 32 x 27.5 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 23 x 19.5 | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas | |
| Date Documented: | 7/6/2003 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Oval, nearly frontal bust-length of a middle-aged man in white tie & vest and black formal jacket. He is turned slightly to reveal a left profile. He has hazel eyes, and straight light brown hair parted over his left eye. His hairline is receding. The background moves up from a mottled black to a mottled red. |
| History: | Restored by Sandor Bodo in the early 1980s. "See also other image of sitter (#152). |
| Notes: | This is a companion piece to that of his wife Sadie Williams Overton (#80). |